Superior to host Rocky Flats author Kristen Iversen on Wednesday

Kristen Iversen, author of "Full Body Burden: Growing up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats," will talk about and sign her book at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Superior.

The town is hosting Iversen's appearance at the Key Equipment Finance Building, 1000 S. McCaslin Blvd.

Her book about the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant, which she researched and wrote over a decade, was chosen as one of the best nonfiction books of 2012 by Kirkus Reviews, one of the best books about justice by The Atlantic, and was a Barnes & Noble Great Writers selection.

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